[mythtv-users] How to choose between 2 backends ?

[Klaus Becker]

Le jeudi 5 avril 2018, 17:08:42 CEST Stephen Worthington a écrit :
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:51:24 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have frontend and backend on a desktop pc.
> >
> >But I would also like to record tv on a laptop. This laptop has no screen
> >and the graphic card is probably to small to watch tv. I installed
> >frontend on it to test it, but now I want to use only the frontend on the
> >desktop pc.
> >
> >So sometimes, I want to record tv on the laptop, but watch recorded
> >episodes on the desktop machine. Copy or move the recordings to the
> >desktop pc should be easy by ftp or an external usb hard disk.
> >
> >How to organize that ? How to tell frontend on the desktop pc which backend
> >I want to use ?
> >
> >In the setup, I saw the option "This server is the Master backend" I can
> >untick.
> >
> >Of course I can change IP address in mythtv-setup, but there is certainly a
> >more elegant solution. Is it possible to create profiles for this purpose ?
> >
> >Bye
> >
> >Klaus
> 
> To get a frontend to connect to multiple different backends, the
> easiest way I have found is just to have multiple config.xml files in
> the /home/<username>/.mythtv directory, one for each backend.  When
> you want to switch backends, you copy the config.xml.backendx file to
> config.xml and start mythfrontend again.  If there are only two
> backends, I would write a little script to do the swap.  Whenever it
> was run, it would copy the other config.xml file and tell you which
> backend it was now configured for.  To make it easier to used, you
> could make the script run from an icon on the desktop, or from a
> desktop menu.  Or you could make the script run mythfrontend for you,
> and each time it runs it, ask first which backend to connect to.
> 
> To copy recordings from one backend to another, you can use
> mythexport/mythimport.  This uses a web page to select the recordings
> to be exported and where to put them, and creates a copy of the
> recording file and a .sql file with the recording's database entries
> in it.  You have mythexport store the files where the other backend
> can see them, or you move them to the other backend (eg using a USB
> drive), and run mythimport on that directory.  Mythimport reads the
> .sql files and imports the data into the database and moves the
> recording files into one of the recording directories where that
> backend can see them.  I wrote the current version of mythimport:
> 
> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mythimport.html


Hi Stephen,

Thank you.

I shall study that, it will take me some time.

Bye

Klaus